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Wheatland, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Steen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47597. It stands on Opossum Branch. The Survey maps it on the Wheatland quadrangle. 390 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 505 feet above sea level.

Wheatland within Knox County

On record in Wheatland

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Wheatland fell from 480 to 390 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010480
2020390-90 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Wheatland in 2006, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 April 2006Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Storms near this place

19 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wheatland in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008FloodWheatland$8,000,000Flooding occurred along the White River in Knox County, including near the Petersburg, Hazleton, and Edwardsport areas, due to heavy rain and levee breaches. Levee unit 8 failed in the Smother's Creek area near Edwardsport. The levee breach failure caused the White River to crest at Edwardsport. More than 20,000 acres of Daviess County flooded as a result of the levee failure.
June 2008Flash FloodWheatland$100,000All four lanes of United States Highway 50 were under water due to heavy rainfall. Homes were flooded in Edwardsport. Water poured into the energy generating plant. Albert Street was flooded.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindWheatland$10,000no account filed
April 2012Thunderstorm WindWheatland$5,000Power outages were reported in this area due to trees and power lines down from damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindWheatland$5,000no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindWheatland$2,000Tree downed by thunderstorm wind gusts onto Enley Road.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindWheatland$2,000Two pretty large trees were downed by damaging thunderstorm wind gusts at the intersection of North Railroad and Sycamore Streets.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindWheatland$1,750A tree and utility line were reported down at State Road 550 and Evans Road, just outside of Wheatland, due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindWheatland$1,000Tree downed by thunderstorm wind gusts.
September 2018Flash FloodWheatland$1,000High water was reported to be over County Road 550, near Marchino Road, due to heavy rainfall. This report was relayed by Knox County EMA.
September 2018Flash FloodWheatland$1,000The Emergency Manager reported high water over portions of State Road 550 between Bruceville and Wheatland.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindWheatland$1,000A tree was reported down on Bicknell Road near the intersection with Hall Road due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWheatland$1,000no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindWheatland$500no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWheatland-Numerous trees were down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindWheatland-Several six to ten inch diameter limbs were blown down.
May 2012HailWheatland-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindWheatland-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindWheatland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Knox County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Monroe City4.1 miles13
Five Points4.2 miles13
Indian Creek Settlement4.9 miles14
Ragsdale5.7 miles14
Pond Creek Mills6.0 miles13
Fritchton6.1 miles18
Verne6.6 miles18
Johnstown7.0 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on WheatlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3295998The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 445878. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.